Mailman 3 - Mailman-Users

change in admin.py for Solaris 2.5.1 and Netscape Fasttrack 2.1 Server
by Werner Frank 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Hello, while trying to run mailman-1.0b9 on Solaris 2.5.1 together with a Netscape Fasttrack Server 2.1 I had to make the following change in $prefix/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py: I changed line 129 from "path" : os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi), to "path" : '/' + os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi), The result is that in the Web Page for the Administrative Authentication where you enter the password of the list administrator, the HTML code now reads: </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="/mailman/admin/mailmantest"> instead of </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailman/admin/mailmantest"> Obviously the Fasttrack Server must be told that this is an absolute path otherwise the following URL will be set to something like http://server/mailman/admin/mailman/admin/mailmantest which can't be treated correctly. May be it's not the best solution but now it works. werner frank wfrank(a)syskonnect.de

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Inlining MIME attachments on Mailman web archives
by Ben Gertzfield 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

I couldn't find an answer to this or in the FAQ; is there a way to specify to mailman a list of MIME types that should be auto-decoded and inlined as an <image> tag in the web archives? Or at least a way to auto-decode MIME attachments and make them available as a link? hypermail has this ability, so I'd assume Mailman can kick its butt in this field too, and that I just couldn't find the option. Thanks, Ben -- Brought to you by the letters Q and Y and the number 5. "You should be glad you don't have diaper rash. Mah Jongg." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet/Open Projects IRC as Che_Fox.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 1.0b9: mbox archive works, pipermail doesn't
by Gordon Matzigkeit 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

>>>>> Gergely Madarasz writes: GM> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: >> >>>>> "Gord" == Gordon Matzigkeit <gord(a)trick.fig.org> writes: >> Gord> I'm having problems using the bundled pipermail archiving. >> The group ownership on that directory looks suspect. What is >> group `list'? The archive directories must be writeable by group >> `mailman'. GM> Not if you use the debian package. Since the list group (and GM> user) was allocated a long time ago in the debian group (and GM> passwd) file it made sense to use it, and not do dynamically GM> allocate a new group. And the group name is never referenced GM> directly, so it works like this. Yes, that's what I'm doing. I know for a fact that the permissions are fine, because the timestamps on the pipermail files are being updated, and mailman is able to recreate the directories automatically if I blow them away using `rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/{private,public}/fig-mail*', and send another message to fig-mail. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <gord(a)fig.org> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)

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How about a faq item...
by paz 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

I just checked the list.org site for info on upgrading from an earlier version (I'm running 0.9) to the last/latest beta. No find. Of course, since I've been running lists for a while under 0.9, I'm a little concerned that I not hose things up when updating Mailman, so any advice in the FAQ would be greatly appreciated. cheers - -- Philip. philip zimmermann paz(a)apriori.net www.apriori.net ayer, ma usa

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1.0b9: mbox archive works, pipermail doesn't
by Gordon Matzigkeit 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

I'm having problems using the bundled pipermail archiving. I created a list, turned on archiving, etc, and messages sent to it appear in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/fig-mail.mbox/fig-mail.mbox, but no matter what I do, .../fig-mail/ only contains 2 files (contents attached): trick:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private# ls -al fig-mail total 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 1024 Mar 9 00:09 . drwxrws--x 4 root list 1024 Mar 9 00:08 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root list 383 Mar 9 00:12 index.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root list 159 Mar 9 00:12 pipermail.pck trick:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private# I've tried deleting and recreating all these directories several times, to no avail. Worse, /var/lib/mailman/logs/error doesn't contain any messages. :( Browsing the FAQ and the mailman-users archives didn't turn up anything obvious. Any help, no matter how vague, would be much appreciated. I can supply more details as needed... -- Gordon Matzigkeit <gord(a)fig.org> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)

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Cron <mailman@hodag> /usr/bin/python /home/m/mailman/cron/gate_news (fwd) (fwd)
by Steve Phillips 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Help! My mailbox is filling up with these error messages. I just upgraded from beta6 to beta9. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:20:02 -0600 From: root (Cron Daemon) To: mailman Subject: Cron <mailman@hodag> /usr/bin/python /home/m/mailman/cron/gate_news Exception NotLockedError in <method FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 8160d18> ignored

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Error Message - Crontab
by J C Lawrence 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:06:11 -0500 Alex Yu<ayu1(a)nycap.rr.com> wrote: > Hello, Actually I tried to su as mailman, I got the following bad > message. > [/usr/local] # su - mailman shell-init: could not get current > directory: job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > Any1 knows how to fix it? Your current directory, the one you issue the `su` command from, must be readable by the user ID you are changing to. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Internet: coder(a)kanga.nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...

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Anyone ever had a list disapear?
by Chris Barnett 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Hi. I've been using Mailman b8 for a couple of weeks and have run several small lists with no problems whatsoever. Today, I set up a big list (2800 people) and sent out my mail. It was going fine, except for the large number of bouncing addresses, but that was to be expected. I was watching my steady stream of bounce-disabled messages (very nice feature, btw) and the occasional reply from members when I started getting a different stream of error messages. This error was that mail couldn't be delivered to the alias for the list-admin. My /etc/aliases was fine and I started to look at the error log for mailman. It's loaded with MMBadListError messages. Next, I tried to look at my settings on the web and I was promptly informed that my list didn't exist on the server. And sure enough, the list was indeed gone. I'm the only admin for the list and the box itself so no one removed it without my knowledge. It just vanished. Anyone else had a list disappear? It's no big deal to recreate this list, but it is a little unsettling that a list would just disappear. My system is running mailman 1.0b8, python 1.5.1, redhat 5.2, and whatever standard version of sendmail that comes in the redhat 5.2 distribution. It's a PII 450 with 128MB of ram and was handling the load fine (except for the list disappearing). My error log is available if you wanna try and diagnose what happened. Thanks for any insights, Chris Barnett Web Designer Unviersity of Florida Foundation, Inc.

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1.0b9 trouble
by Arjen Wolfs 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

Hi there... I've been trying to get 1.0b9 to work on my SuSE Linux box, it installs and compiles fine, following the guidelines from the INSTALL file, up to the point where a site password has to be set, where the following error occurs: mailman@underworld:/home/mailman/mailman-1.0b9/bin > ./mmsitepass password Traceback (innermost last): File "./mmsitepass", line 26, in ? import paths ImportError: No module named paths The box is runing python 1.5.1, kernel 2.0.36, and sendmail 8.9.2. Any help would be greatly appreciated (please cc any replies as I'm not a member of this list). Arjen

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Possible Fix for password lookup bug
by Brian Ryner 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

It looks like Mass Subscribe should lowercase the email before subscribing it. (And maybe other processing? when you subscribe yourself it checks for spaces, etc.). Anyway, it looks like all other methods of subscribing lowercase the addresses first, and the options editing script essentially depends on it being lowercase. So... if this all sounds reasonable, could someone please make the change. Thanks. -Brian Ryner bryner(a)uiuc.edu

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